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PROCEEDINGS OE THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



[May 4, 



nation of the rock, the occasional psendo-ripple-marks which the 

 strata present, and the abundant fragments of fossil wood which are 

 included in most of the blocks of stone, amply testify. 



Fig. 1. — Block of Oolite, v/iih an imbedded group of Eggs, of which 

 eight are seen. Reduced \. 



1. Egg filled with crystals of carbonate of lime. 



2. Egg, having the interior lined with crystals of carbonate of lime. This egg 



has been laterally squeezed, especially towards one end. 



3. Egg partly exposed. 



4. Cavity left by another egg, which has been removed, and is figured separately 



(% 2). 



5. Hollow left by the removal of a specimen ; at a a small, round, concentrically 



marked, low conical patch of carbonate of lime remains. 

 G, 7, & 8. Indications of other eggs. 



Fig. 2. — One of the Eggs, of the natural size. 



The specimen is filled with crystallized carbonate of lime, and is fractured along 

 its greatest diameter : and the surface exhibits a slight ridge that has been 

 occasioned by pressure when the egg was flexible. 



As regards the specimen itself, it may be described as a cluster of 

 the remains of at least eight eggs, of a uniformly ovate, not ovoid 



